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The CUDA Business Brain has been recognised
Why we won…(what the Judges had to say):
Being 1 of 4 winners, (out of 33 entrants) we were provided an opportunity to say a few words and present to around 250 participants online, We have requested to make the entry submission itself available on the LearnTrends website, so that the community can get a better sense of our solution! View the recorded demonstrations: To sum up, we are extremely excited to have our work recognised, and will continue to participating in these type of events for the objective feedback the experience provides us! The other winners had great products and approaches, and we encourage you to join the online community at LearnTrends, and to check them all out! About LearnTrends “The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation Conference” LearnTrends www.learntrends.com in an online gathering of learning professionals started by Jay Cross, Tony Karrer and George Siemens. Each year they host an online conference, bringing together learning and performance support professionals from around the work for online discussions, debates and presentations. LearnTrends 2009 was the third such event, and around 300 participants joined. This was the first year that an award for innovation was presented! About the AwardWe submitted an entry for the Business Brain, and included recorded demonstrations of the Workplace Performance Support features. We were 1 of 33 entries, which we feel is fairly good for a first time award. 4 winners were announced on the first day of the LearnTrends 2009. We were extremely excited to be one of them!
The conference was hosted online by Jay Cross, George Siemens, and Tony Karrer, (see profiles below) and they judged each entry as a panel, and voted, with unanimous decisions being the order of the day! About The Judges:George Siemens is Associate Director, R & D, Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba . He is the founder Complexive Systems Inc., an research and learning lab focused on assisting organizations develop approaches to meet the needs of changing learners, employees, and global education and business environments. Siemens has keynoted and presented at national and international conferences. His publications and personal blogs can be accessed at www.elearnspace.org, www.knowingknowledge.com, http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/ and www.connectivism.ca . Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web and eLearning development firm based in Los Angeles , and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years' experience as a CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University , attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science. Jay Cross has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix . Jay helped spark the eLearning revolution and served as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years. He is an authority getting business results through informal learning. An inspirational speaker and prolific author, he enjoys invention, experimentation, and art. Jay is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School . In conclusion... We are very proud to have CUDA technologies recognized in this manner and we will continue to take our clients needs seriously and drive innovation across all of our solutions.
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